Congress leader Gidugu Rudraraju said that the Prime Minister Modi has powers to grant special status to Andhra Pradesh. TDP MLA Bandaru Satyanarayana stated that the BJP-led NDA government should take a decision on according special status to AP at the earliest. Senior BJP leader Raghunath Babu blamed other states for delaying sanction of special status to AP. YSRCP MLA Sridhar Babu said that the YSRCP has right to question the TDP government as special status and railway zone were not granted to AP even after two years.